Last night laden with beer, Edgy his brother-in-law Frank, a stalwart Quo fan, and I fell upon Rockers in Glasgow, a dingy wee rock venue by The Arches under the Glasgow Central railway station.

We were on our way to being well lubed with beer by the time they came on the small stage at 11ish.  I reckon if I wasn’t already slightly drunk I would have still loved the night.

The band, if you hadn’t already guessed it from the title of the post, was called Staid As Quo, a (again, you guessed it) Status Quo tribute band.  The first time I’ve ever seen a trubute band and I have to admit that they played a blinder, only concentrating on 1976 Quo, that being the ‘Golden Age of Quo’, and by the time they finished at around 1 in the morning I was filled with 12 bar blues related joy.  Much air guitar was performed…

Next time they happen to heading though town head over and see them.  Well worth the money.  Easily better then the real thing…

- Alistair

The review has been shifted here.

- Alistair

Richard Wright, keyboardist of Pink Floyd, has passed away.

And as I settle down to a few hours of writing it’s only fitting that Dark Side Of The Moon gets played.

For the next few days you can hear the first episode of I Am Legend by Richard Matheson on BBC Radio 7.  So far they’re up to episode four.

Go there and listen to the story that the film should have been.

A story much more sophisticated than the film ever was…

Wow.  Last night was a whole bag of Prog-related madness.

First of we had Frost*.

They don’t do anything you haven’t heard in prog before.  But.  They do it very well.

I hadn’t heard them much before last night, just a few tracks played at Neil’s the night before, and they played a blinder.  I advise everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, to give them a try.  Tracks are available on their myspace page and there’s some tomfoolery on youtube.

And then came Spock’s Beard.  And they rocked the place down.

My gig experience is very much like this: rarely is the support band any good, and if they are then the main band often aren’t.  That’s not a general rule,  but it’s the way I’ve experienced it.

This was different.  The Beard rocked.  They played a lot of recent songs that I wasn’t to up on but they did a fantastic job.

So, there you go.